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If she does not claim her marriage contract, the heirs do not administer an oath to her. And they disagree with regard to the issue that is the subject of the dispute of Ḥanan and the sons of the High Priests, as we learned in a Mishnah (104b): With regard to one who went to a country overseas and
The Mishnah continues: The sons of the High Priests disagreed with him, and said: She takes an oath that her husband did not leave her any money at the beginning, when she comes to take money for sustenance, and at the conclusion, when she comes to claim her marriage contract. R' Yirmeya suggests:
Rav Sheshet objects to R' Yirmeya’s statement: If the dispute is with regard to a woman who comes to collect money for her sustenance while her husband is away, why would the Mishnah employ this phrase: The heirs administer an oath to her? It should have said that the court administers an oath to he
Rather, Rav Sheshet said that R' Shimon’s statement is referring to this earlier Mishnah (86b): If a woman who was exempted from an oath by her husband went from her husband’s grave, immediately after her husband’s death, to her father’s house, without handling her late husband’s property, or in a
Rav Sheshet explains: And they disagree with regard to the issue that is the subject of the dispute of Abba Shaul and the Rabbis, as we learned in a Mishnah (Gittin 52a): A steward who was appointed by the father of orphans to take care of their property must take an oath when the orphans come of ag